To offer Alexa’s first celebrity voice selection, Samuel L. Jackson has made a deal with Amazon. The Jackson “voice pack” will come to Alexa for an introductory offer of 99 cents later this year, and users can choose between clean and explicit versions, Variety reported. Once...
Payments and commerce fraud comes in a variety of rancid flavors and uses a variety of tactics, many of them increasingly sophisticated, mobile and digital. But sometimes payments-related fraud comes down to old-fashioned methods, and that was the case on Friday afternoon (Sept. 13) in...
Celebrity-backed brands are nothing new. As PYMNTS has previously reported, the original celebrity-endorsed products date back as the far as the 1760s, when the British royal family was tapped to endorse fine china. But the modern era of celebrity brands dates back to 1991, with Elizabeth Taylor’s...
Looks like the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has had enough of the sudden run of celebrity-backed independent coin offerings, or ICOs. As of yesterday, it began officially warning them that by endorsing these currencies, they could be in violation of the law. As of...
September 25, 2019
To offer Alexa’s first celebrity voice selection, Samuel L. Jackson has made a deal with Amazon. The Jackson “voice pack” will come to Alexa for an introductory offer of 99 cents later this year, and users can choose between clean and explicit versions, Variety reported. Once users install the Jackson voice pack, they can command, “Alexa, […]
November 02, 2017
Looks like the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has had enough of the sudden run of celebrity-backed independent coin offerings, or ICOs. As of yesterday, it began officially warning them...
July 19, 2017
ObEN, which uses artificial intelligence-powered tools to create avatars that look and sound like real people, announced it has raised $5 million in strategic investment from Tencent so that it...
October 02, 2015
Blake Lively tells Vogue that her eCommerce site Preserve is closing up shop.
